On Halloween night in Long Beach, California, three white girls went to a haunted house in a predominantly black area of town. On their way to the haunted house, a group of black males began to taunt them with sexist language and kept saying "are you down with it?" while grabbing their crotches. The white girls didn't know what the blacks meant by this and were a little frightened by their rude and sexist behavior, so they ignored them and went into the haunted house.
After leaving the haunted house, they began to make their way back to their car. They were then attacked by between 20 to 30 blacks, both male and female. According to the victims and all the witnesses, the blacks were shouting "we hate white people" and "f*ck whitey" while they brutally beat the three white girls. One of the girls was knocked unconscious during the assalt, but the attackers continued to punch and kick her motionless body, an they also repeatedly hit her over the head with a skateboard.
2006-11-24 13:32:59 · 12 answers · asked by devil's advocate 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
One of the victims recieved 12 fractured bones in her face and likely will be permanently blind in one eye.
This event has not been reported on in the national media. It was only covered by the local news media. The LA Times didn't even report on the story.
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So, I have two questions.
1. Why was this story not reported in the national media?
2. If 20 to 30 whites had attacked three black girls in the same brutal way while shouting "we hate blacks" and "f*ck *******", do you think the national news media would have covered it?
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Here is a link to the story
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4602384
2006-11-24 13:40:33 · update #1
Racism only works one way. Just look at the record of Jessie Jackson, Louis Farrikan, and Maxine Waters. They get away with it, so why can't any other black person?
They think of it as a tit-for-tat reprisal for what 'our' great grandparents did to THEIR grandparents. So that makes it okay, at least in the eyes of the Liberal Media.
2006-11-24 13:55:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Various reasons:
1. It might not be true
2. There is a double standard these days. The media might have orders to not report that which might inflame a community or the country for that matter
3. Remember that what you and I think is newsworthy is not necessarily so to the media...Examples:
A. The Rev. Sun Mung Moon and the Moonies were behind the winning of the white house by George Bush. That whole Sinclair Brodcasting thing bashing Kerry the night before the election was written by a famous Moonie.
4 . 20 Years ago I reported to the New York Times that when I had been in Oaxaca Mexico, that there were thousands of Country Folk demonstrating on the Plaza there that there husbands and wives and friends were missing...taken in the night by death squads... They told me..."Not Interested"...last month...it was finally in news..and still.... not even all of it.
5.The general public is only interested in Fluff..you know ..Tom Cruise and what's her name...Brad Pitt and Jolie...all that crap..They love gossip and trash...Also much isn't out there becuse the average American has virtually no attention span and a brain capacity a little better than an imbecile or a moron...but not much more...Think about these things for a while...on the Moonie stuff , read below...my source..
2006-11-24 14:27:45 · answer #2 · answered by odysseus96 2 · 6⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-13 01:33:08 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Everything doesn't get shown as simple as that the most outrageous disgusting things win out and apparently to the news media that story wasn't it...
2006-11-25 19:34:12 · answer #4 · answered by micheleh29 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know but the same would have happened if ther were 3 blacks in a white neighborhood so don't try and act as if it wouldn't have made a difference!
2006-11-24 14:58:53 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Okay well I don't think what they did is right and they should have serious jail time for what they did. Those are type of people I consider ****** which can refer to anyone of any race.
2006-11-24 13:39:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The same reason other assaults/killings of many blacks haven't been on national news????
2006-11-24 13:43:40 · answer #7 · answered by earthwhisper 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Two reasons they were not celebrities and it was a predominately black neighborhood. So it wasn't really news worthy.
2006-11-24 13:37:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure this story is true? If it is, then it should have made national news. I don't know who decides what goes on national news.
2006-11-24 13:39:50 · answer #9 · answered by Juanitamarie 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Because it never happened!!
2006-11-24 14:15:08 · answer #10 · answered by YankySpanky 1 · 4⤊ 3⤋